Medion MD 8824 Tower

[AlanHo]

Is this worth buying for use by a teenage grandson - for studies and games.

Medion MD8824 tower with keyboard and mouse (No monitor)

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 Dual Core 1.8 Ghz

320 GB SATA hard drive

2 GB RAM

NVidia GeForce 8400 Graphics

Dual layer DVD burner

Ethernet on board

TV Tuner and remote control (digital and analogue)

Vista Home Premium

MS Works

Nero essentails

Medion Home Cinema

3 year warranty

£399.99 - Thursday 2nd Agust

[Alan2273]

Apart from the graphics card, the processor is a good one, plenty of ram and hard drive space.

and a three year warranty, so IMO it is worth the money.

This is only a base unit so it will need monitor, speakers, keyboard & mouse.

[trackrat]

Alan you might want to read this thread.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cf...5&forumid=2

[Rebel=UK=]

Graphics card looks abit weedy, and to be honest id never heard of the 8400GS before ,8500/8600/8800 yes but not that one. Most of the rest of the spec isnt to bad considering the price and you could easily upgrade the graphics card to a newer one

[Boris]

Then you'd need to upgrade the PSU - these Medions are designed to be used "out of the box" - not upgraded to any significant effect.

[Rebel=UK=]

Then you'd need to upgrade the PSU - these Medions are designed to be used "out of the box" - not upgraded to any significant effect.

oh yes if your upgrading the graphics card, you will need a new PSU the PSU supplied will be crap. if you do get a psu make sure its PCI-E ready. stay away from cheap PSU's aswell get a good brand like OCZ, Antec,Corsair,Seasonic,Tagan........maybe hiper at a push.

[AlanHo]

Thank you guys - you have made the decision easy. It's a no-no.

I will now close the thread.